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movement of all our equipment,

accountability for

all our equipment.

Um, basically he's the

logistics expert on the team.

QUADE:
So an engineer- So building

stuff and also, like, blowing stuff up?

- Yeah.

- Okay, so, but building stuff too

because I think a lot

of folks don't understand

- that you guys do all sorts of things.

- Right.

When we moved into this outpost,

it was a house,

basically in desert,

surrounded by barbed-wire fence.

Within a month,

Rob had built the camp.

(rock music plays)

This ain't no world

for the weary eyed

This ain't no game

for the foolish child

This ain't no place

Got to fall in line

- Gone awry...

- He did everything from install the protective barriers

to running electricity

for the house,

repairing generators.

He was literally working

until he went to bed.

He'd wake up in the middle of the

night to play some online poker,

go back to sleep,

wake up in the morning,

still in his AC-Which

and his boots,

ready to work in the morning

with a smile on his face.

We thought it appropriate

to name the camp after him

since he did so much

of that work on his own.

QUADE:
We've been kinda holding

off on this one a little bit,

but let's talk about

Rob and about that day.

Yeah, it's a difficult

subject to talk about,

but any questions you want

answered, you want to...

find out about it, I'm more

than happy to talk about it.

QUADE:
Bring us- Let's

walk through that day.

We drove out there,

in an area

we've never been before.

There was the makings

of a small village

and so we stopped.

My gunner, he had told me that he

saw somebody on top of the roof,

somebody who was

wearing all black.

And he had an AK, and he was

running around on top of the roof.

(man on radio) The compound

directly to your North,

we have one individual

up on the roof.

CAPTAIN JASON:
And he had seen people

maneuvering towards

his building,

and he was sporadically

firing his weapon

from off the top of the roof.

And they started moving aerial

assets over to our location.

(radio chatter)

My team Sergeant,

he said "I've been shot,"

you know "Man down, eagle down."

(man echoes)

Eagle down!

I directed my medic

to maneuver up to the building

where we thought that he was.

MEDIC:
And I looked over to my right

and I saw my Senior Charlie

at the time, Rob.

He was laying on his back.

I just remember reaching

around the corner

and grabbing the strap

on his kit,

and pulling him around

the corner of the building.

It was crazy

because he looked...

Other than the fact

that he was unconscious,

he looked like

nothing was wrong with him.

And then I looked on his helmet,

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